Dr Ramya Mohan

Dr Ramya Mohan is a senior Consultant Child and Adolescent psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience in Psychiatry. She specialises in ADHD, Autism, depression, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, and OCD. She is also an expert in sleep disorders, co-morbidity with physical health conditions, childhood learning disability, post-traumatic stress disorder and medicolegal work.

She provides empathic, individualised, and efficient service with the highest levels of confidentiality and ethics. She offers up-to-date, evidence-based care and routinely collects feedback to evolve her practice.

Dr Mohan, who obtained her MRCPsych with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2003, has further sub-specialised in child and adolescent psychiatry with the London Deanery and has more than 20 years of experience. She was awarded a fellowship (FRCPsych) by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2018.

She is the Medical director and Creative Head of I MANAS London, an internationally renowned clinical and creative platform for mental health and emotional well-being.

Dr Mohan completed sub-specialist training at Great Ormond Street Hospital with the Royal London Training Scheme in child and adolescent (developmental) psychiatry. She has been an NHS consultant with Oxleas, Surrey and Borders and Sussex Partnership NHS trusts in CAMHS, developmental neuropsychiatry, neurodevelopmental disorders, childhood learning disability and paediatric liaison over the years. She is trained in EMDR, mindfulness, psychodynamic therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

In addition to supporting psychiatry and CAMHS trainees as a specialty champion for child and adolescent psychiatry (NHS England), Dr Ramya has been a visiting expert faculty for the College of Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London.

Her research interests include the cognitive neuroscience of creativity and clinically applicable creativity and neuroscience-based approaches in vulnerable groups. Her work has been published in high-impact journals, and she has also been an author for a number of international publications.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists UK has commended Dr Mohan as a global pioneer in amalgamating creative arts and neuroscience for youth and societal development, awarding her a Fellowship award for distinctive contributions to world psychiatry in 2018. She was a twice shortlisted nominee for the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Communicator of the Year’ national awards in 2019 and 2020.

Dr Mohan's original work has pioneered a global movement in integrating music and the creative arts with psychiatry for optimal mental health across the west and the east over the years. Her internationally acclaimed neuroscientific therapeutic technique CAPE: Creative Arts for Processing Emotions ® (@CAPEforHealth) has dedicated users across the globe. She has extensive cross-cultural experience in mental health and international community development.

Dr. Mohan is multilingual and speaks English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit.